1960–61 Detroit Red Wings season

The 1960–61 Detroit Red Wings season saw the Red Wings finish in fourth place in the National Hockey League (NHL) with a record of 25 wins, 29 losses, and 16 ties for 66 points. They defeated the Toronto Maple Leafs in six games in the Semi-finals before losing the Stanley Cup Finals in six games to the Chicago Black Hawks.

Regular season

Final standings

National Hockey League^[1]
		GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	DIFF	Pts
1	Montreal Canadiens	70	41	19	10	254	188	+66	92
2	Toronto Maple Leafs	70	39	19	12	234	176	+58	90
3	Chicago Black Hawks	70	29	24	17	198	180	+18	75
4	Detroit Red Wings	70	25	29	16	195	215	-20 −20	66
5	New York Rangers	70	22	38	10	204	248	-44 −44	54
6	Boston Bruins	70	15	42	13	176	254	-78 −78	43

Schedule and results

No.	R	Date	Score	Opponent	Record
1	T	October 5, 1960	1–1	@ Chicago Black Hawks (1960–61)	0–0–1
2	L	October 6, 1960	2–4	Chicago Black Hawks (1960–61)	0–1–1
3	T	October 9, 1960	3–3	Toronto Maple Leafs (1960–61)	0–1–2
4	T	October 11, 1960	3–3	@ Boston Bruins (1960–61)	0–1–3
5	L	October 13, 1960	3–4	@ Montreal Canadiens (1960–61)	0–2–3
6	W	October 16, 1960	6–4	Montreal Canadiens (1960–61)	1–2–3
7	W	October 20, 1960	5–0	Boston Bruins (1960–61)	2–2–3
8	W	October 22, 1960	2–1	@ Toronto Maple Leafs (1960–61)	3–2–3
9	L	October 23, 1960	1–3	Toronto Maple Leafs (1960–61)	3–3–3
10	L	October 26, 1960	3–4	@ New York Rangers (1960–61)	3–4–3
11	W	October 30, 1960	2–1	Chicago Black Hawks (1960–61)	4–4–3
12	W	November 3, 1960	8–5	Boston Bruins (1960–61)	5–4–3
13	W	November 6, 1960	5–2	New York Rangers (1960–61)	6–4–3
14	W	November 9, 1960	4–3	@ New York Rangers (1960–61)	7–4–3
15	W	November 10, 1960	4–1	@ Boston Bruins (1960–61)	8–4–3
16	L	November 12, 1960	2–4	@ Montreal Canadiens (1960–61)	8–5–3
17	L	November 13, 1960	1–7	@ Chicago Black Hawks (1960–61)	8–6–3
18	W	November 15, 1960	3–2	Chicago Black Hawks (1960–61)	9–6–3
19	T	November 16, 1960	3–3	@ Toronto Maple Leafs (1960–61)	9–6–4
20	L	November 19, 1960	4–6	@ Boston Bruins (1960–61)	9–7–4
21	W	November 20, 1960	4–3	@ New York Rangers (1960–61)	10–7–4
22	W	November 24, 1960	3–1	Montreal Canadiens (1960–61)	11–7–4
23	T	November 26, 1960	3–3	@ Toronto Maple Leafs (1960–61)	11–7–5
24	W	November 27, 1960	2–0	Toronto Maple Leafs (1960–61)	12–7–5
25	L	December 1, 1960	2–3	Boston Bruins (1960–61)	12–8–5
26	L	December 4, 1960	1–4	New York Rangers (1960–61)	12–9–5
27	W	December 7, 1960	3–1	@ New York Rangers (1960–61)	13–9–5
28	L	December 10, 1960	4–6	@ Montreal Canadiens (1960–61)	13–10–5
29	L	December 11, 1960	1–5	Montreal Canadiens (1960–61)	13–11–5
30	T	December 15, 1960	1–1	New York Rangers (1960–61)	13–11–6
31	W	December 18, 1960	3–2	@ Chicago Black Hawks (1960–61)	14–11–6
32	T	December 24, 1960	4–4	@ Toronto Maple Leafs (1960–61)	14–11–7
33	L	December 25, 1960	0–3	Chicago Black Hawks (1960–61)	14–12–7
34	W	December 28, 1960	4–3	@ New York Rangers (1960–61)	15–12–7
35	T	December 29, 1960	1–1	@ Montreal Canadiens (1960–61)	15–12–8
36	L	December 31, 1960	0–3	Chicago Black Hawks (1960–61)	15–13–8
37	L	January 1, 1961	0–3	@ Chicago Black Hawks (1960–61)	15–14–8
38	L	January 4, 1961	4–6	@ Toronto Maple Leafs (1960–61)	15–15–8
39	L	January 5, 1961	1–4	Toronto Maple Leafs (1960–61)	15–16–8
40	W	January 8, 1961	5–3	Boston Bruins (1960–61)	16–16–8
41	T	January 11, 1961	2–2	@ Chicago Black Hawks (1960–61)	16–16–9
42	T	January 14, 1961	2–2	New York Rangers (1960–61)	16–16–10
43	T	January 15, 1961	4–4	Montreal Canadiens (1960–61)	16–16–11
44	L	January 19, 1961	2–4	@ Boston Bruins (1960–61)	16–17–11
45	W	January 21, 1961	3–2	@ Montreal Canadiens (1960–61)	17–17–11
46	L	January 22, 1961	3–5	New York Rangers (1960–61)	17–18–11
47	T	January 26, 1961	2–2	Chicago Black Hawks (1960–61)	17–18–12
48	T	January 28, 1961	3–3	@ Montreal Canadiens (1960–61)	17–18–13
49	W	January 29, 1961	3–1	@ Boston Bruins (1960–61)	18–18–13
50	L	February 2, 1961	0–5	Toronto Maple Leafs (1960–61)	18–19–13
51	L	February 4, 1961	2–4	@ Toronto Maple Leafs (1960–61)	18–20–13
52	W	February 5, 1961	7–2	Montreal Canadiens (1960–61)	19–20–13
53	L	February 8, 1961	2–5	@ Chicago Black Hawks (1960–61)	19–21–13
54	W	February 9, 1961	4–2	New York Rangers (1960–61)	20–21–13
55	L	February 12, 1961	2–4	Toronto Maple Leafs (1960–61)	20–22–13
56	W	February 18, 1961	5–1	Boston Bruins (1960–61)	21–22–13
57	L	February 19, 1961	2–4	Montreal Canadiens (1960–61)	21–23–13
58	T	February 23, 1961	3–3	Boston Bruins (1960–61)	21–23–14
59	L	February 25, 1961	1–3	@ Toronto Maple Leafs (1960–61)	21–24–14
60	T	February 26, 1961	2–2	Toronto Maple Leafs (1960–61)	21–24–15
61	W	February 28, 1961	3–1	Chicago Black Hawks (1960–61)	22–24–15
62	L	March 2, 1961	2–4	@ Boston Bruins (1960–61)	22–25–15
63	L	March 4, 1961	4–6	@ Montreal Canadiens (1960–61)	22–26–15
64	L	March 5, 1961	3–8	@ New York Rangers (1960–61)	22–27–15
65	W	March 7, 1961	3–1	Boston Bruins (1960–61)	23–27–15
66	W	March 9, 1961	5–2	@ Boston Bruins (1960–61)	24–27–15
67	L	March 12, 1961	3–7	@ New York Rangers (1960–61)	24–28–15
68	W	March 14, 1961	5–2	New York Rangers (1960–61)	25–28–15
69	T	March 15, 1961	2–2	@ Chicago Black Hawks (1960–61)	25–28–16
70	L	March 19, 1961	0–2	Montreal Canadiens (1960–61)	25–29–16

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Player statistics

Regular season

Scoring

Player	Pos	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
Howe, GordieGordie Howe	RW	64	23	49	72	30
Ullman, NormNorm Ullman	C	70	28	42	70	34
Delvecchio, AlexAlex Delvecchio	C/LW	70	27	35	62	26
Johnson, AllanAllan Johnson	RW/C	70	16	21	37	14
Goegan, PetePete Goegan	D	67	5	29	34	78
Glover, HowieHowie Glover	RW	66	21	8	29	46
MacDonald, ParkerParker MacDonald	C	70	14	12	26	6
Melnyk, GerryGerry Melnyk	C	70	9	16	25	2
Oliver, MurrayMurray Oliver	C	49	11	12	23	8
Stasiuk, VicVic Stasiuk	LW	23	10	13	23	16
Godfrey, WarrenWarren Godfrey	D	63	3	16	19	62
Lunde, LenLen Lunde	C	53	6	12	18	10
Fonteyne, ValVal Fonteyne	LW	66	6	11	17	4
Pronovost, MarcelMarcel Pronovost	D	70	6	11	17	44
Labine, LeoLeo Labine	RW	24	2	9	11	32
Aldcorn, GaryGary Aldcorn	LW	49	2	6	8	16
Young, HowieHowie Young	D/RW	29	0	8	8	108
Odrowski, GerryGerry Odrowski	D	68	1	4	5	45
McKenzie, JohnJohn McKenzie	RW	16	3	1	4	13
Smith, BrianBrian Smith	LW	26	0	2	2	10
Haley, LenLen Haley	RW	3	1	0	1	2
Laforge, ClaudeClaude Laforge	LW	10	1	0	1	2
Bassen, HankHank Bassen	G	35	0	1	1	6
MacGregor, BruceBruce MacGregor	C	12	0	1	1	0
Reaume, MarcMarc Reaume	D	38	0	1	1	8
Sawchuk, TerryTerry Sawchuk	G	37	0	1	1	8
Diachuk, EdwardEdward Diachuk	LW	12	0	0	0	19
Healey, RichRich Healey	D	1	0	0	0	2

Goaltending

Player	MIN	GP	W	L	T	GA	GAA	SO
Bassen, HankHank Bassen	2050	35	13	13	8	100	2.93	0
Sawchuk, TerryTerry Sawchuk	2150	37	12	16	8	112	3.13	2
Team:	4200	70	25	29	16	212	3.03	2

Playoffs

Scoring

Player	Pos	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
Howe, GordieGordie Howe	RW	11	4	11	15	10
Delvecchio, AlexAlex Delvecchio	C/LW	11	4	5	9	0
Stasiuk, VicVic Stasiuk	LW	11	2	5	7	4
Labine, LeoLeo Labine	RW	11	3	2	5	4
Fonteyne, ValVal Fonteyne	LW	11	2	3	5	0
Pronovost, MarcelMarcel Pronovost	D	9	2	3	5	0
Johnson, AllanAllan Johnson	RW/C	11	2	2	4	6
Young, HowieHowie Young	D/RW	11	2	2	4	30
Ullman, NormNorm Ullman	C	11	0	4	4	4
Glover, HowieHowie Glover	RW	11	1	2	3	2
MacGregor, BruceBruce MacGregor	C	8	1	2	3	6
Lunde, LenLen Lunde	C	10	2	0	2	0
Godfrey, WarrenWarren Godfrey	D	11	0	2	2	18
MacDonald, ParkerParker MacDonald	C	9	1	0	1	0
Melnyk, GerryGerry Melnyk	C	11	1	0	1	2
Goegan, PetePete Goegan	D	11	0	1	1	18
Bassen, HankHank Bassen	G	4	0	0	0	0
Odrowski, GerryGerry Odrowski	D	10	0	0	0	4
Sawchuk, TerryTerry Sawchuk	G	8	0	0	0	0

Goaltending

Player	MIN	GP	W	L	GA	GAA	SO
Sawchuk, TerryTerry Sawchuk	465	8	5	3	18	2.32	1
Bassen, HankHank Bassen	220	4	1	2	9	2.45	0
Team:	685	11	6	5	27	2.36	1

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Note: GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/- = Plus-minus PIM = Penalty minutes; PPG = Power-play goals; SHG = Short-handed goals; GWG = Game-winning goals;
MIN = Minutes played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; GA = Goals against; GAA = Goals-against average; SO = Shutouts;

Roster

1960–1961 Detroit Red Wings Roster

Goaltenders

1 – Hank Bassen
1 – Terry Sawchuk

Defensemen

Wingers

8 – Leo Labine
9 – Gordie Howe –C
11 – Gary Aldcorn
11 – Vic Stasiuk
12 – Val Fonteyne
15 – Howie Glover
16 – Ed Diachuk
16 – Claude LaForge
16 – Brian Smith
17 – Allan Johnson
21 – John McKenzie
22 – Len Haley

Centers

GM: Jack Adams
Coach: Sid Abel

References

Red Wings on Hockey Database

↑ "1960–1961 Division Standings Standings - NHL.com - Standings". National Hockey League.
↑ "1960–61 Detroit Red Wings Games". Hockey-reference.com. Retrieved 2009-06-04.
↑ "1960-61 Detroit Red Wings Statistics - Hockey-Reference.com". hockey-reference.com. Retrieved 2009-06-02.

1960–61 NHL season

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See also	All-Star Game Stanley Cup Finals

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